Fifteenth Doctor Episodes 1 and 2
Added 2024-05-18 14:09:22 +0000 UTCAmber and Leigh join Alyx as Hosts of Who the Trans. Join them in their Debut DOUBLE FEATURE, where they talk about Episode 1: Space Babies and Episode 2: The Devil's Chord
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4th wall: When you're watching a play on a stage and all the action is happening inside a room, you as the audience can see the back wall, left wall, and right wall, but you're looking through an imaginary front wall of the room. The actors have to pretend that wall is there, because if it wasn't there, then the illusion of their imaginary world would be broken. But sometimes they do break that illusion. When they do that, they are usually acknowledging that the audience is observing them, that their world is imaginary, or even that they themselves are just actors. In the Maestro's episode this is things like when they play the theme tune - the characters should not know they're in a TV show with a theme tune, yet Maestro is playing the theme tune and therefore knows. Similarly the Doctor drops some film nerd lingo - "I thought that was non-diegetic". Diegetic means "the ambient sounds within the show space" e.g. tea tray rattling, footsteps, someone playing a car radio. Non-diegetic is the film score because only the audience can hear it. The Doctor reveals in this line that he always hears Murray Gold's scoring. He's been hearing the soundtrack all along, and just never mentions it. Either this - or the sound track is all in the Doctor's head and we've been tuned in to the Doctor's musical equivalent of an internal monologue this whole time. Either way, both terrifying, and kinda cool. The Doctor has been doing this a lot though in this series, with things like winks to the camera and other similar notes demonstrating that the Doctor is entirely aware he is inside a story, but as he's a character in it, there's nothing he can really do about it except try to survive. This means that Davies or Moffett could be writing themself in as the Oldest One, seeing as he's the one who created them all, and has ultimate power over everyone in this universe but is also outside of their universe. On "what's changed his mind?" about Gods: The Doctor also refers to them as The Pantheon (that's the Gods). Previously he worked with what's inside the Whoniverse, he's now gone out of the Whoniverse, and made a way back in for things outside of it. Thus gods that before wouldn't have been viable otherwise are now possible. Or seen another way - 4th dimensional beings that might as well be seen as gods, because a being that is 4 dimensional would view a 3 dimensional universe in the same way we view a piece of paper. We can see the whole page and rewrite it at will. The only reason to be subjected to the laws of our 3D universe would be because if you don't - cause and effect become meaningless and nothing actually makes in universe. It's like how you *can* tear every page out of a book, throw them through a wood chipper, and look at them all at once and say "I've read the book!" but it's not going to make any sense whatsoever unless you experience that book from front to back rather than all at once. And yes, you may have noticed that not only does this description fit the TARDIS and possibly the Timelords too, but in the episode Boom, he describes himself in those terms too. So god indeed, and this is echoed in the whole Bad Wolf "I am become god" thing from way back.
Alexandra Lilly
2024-05-19 21:37:17 +0000 UTC(Not listened yet) I hoped Disney had gotten the hint by now that their creepy AI people are creepy. But nope. They did babies. And nope. So much nope.
Alexandra Lilly
2024-05-19 20:29:02 +0000 UTC
